Item 1307
 
Coming to you from Doc's Crocks is this wonderful Sleepy Eye Stoneware 8 3/4" Pitcher
made by the Western Stoneware Company of Monmouth, Illinois.  
 
Western made this piece for the Old Sleepy Eye Milling Company of Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. It was a giveaway premium for buyers of their flour from 1906-1937 (Jim Martin and Bette Cooper, Monmouth-Western Stoneware , pp. 112-13).
 
This beauty features Old Sleepy Eye in Profile on One Side and a Tepee and Trees on the Other,   A bust of Old Sleepy Eye provides a thumbgrip to the handle.  Cobalt trim on the handle and base.  Stands 8 3/4" to the top of the spout. 
 
Good Gondition.  A rough spot on the right side of the spout (closeup 1), 1 3/4" hairline from the rim on one side by the handle (closeup 2), and a filled in chip on the left side of the Sleepy Eye bust on the handle (closeup 3).  No base chips or stains.
 
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